Thursday Morning Coffee.

Good Morning, Everyone.
We have time for just one quick update before work crews descend on Capitol Ideas World HQ to disassemble our office and do something (we assume it's good) to the heating and air conditioning system in the Capitol press room.

So, before we're forcibly vacated to the nearest Barnes & Noble, here's a quick story from the gubernatorial campaign trail, courtesy of KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh:

The suburban Philadelphia legislator began his political career in the western Pennsylvania community in 1986, when he mounted a failed state House campaign against former Democratic Rep. Frank La Grotta. He moved east, won a seat in the state Senate that had been relocated through a weird trick of redistricting and then was elected to Congress.

Gerlach told KDKA-TV that, ""Growing up in this area, everybody had the concern and probably still have the concern that monies end up in other parts of the state and don't properly support what's needed for growth here."

So if the gubernatorial contest is all about geographic balance, does Pennsylvania have its first Eastern and Western candidate on its hands?

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